That is not as bad as zero to pwned in 23 seconds average just by connecting XP to the Internet
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You've completely sensationalized this issue by waaaayyy overstating the time to having an XP machine pwned. Unbelieveable how some people pop out with crap like this which isn't even remotely true. It's 23 minutes before the average XP machine is pwned *, not seconds, so get your story straight, pal!
A feature! Of course! This could be a piece of freeware for a company to deploy the daily operation notes to everyone's desktop every morning using Multicast DNS. Brilliant! I could use that now. Would it still be called a vulnerability? I guess it depends on whether your goal is to harm the public or help the public.
This should be patched quickly and bears watching but I'm a considerable distance from panic at this point. Apple only needs to deal with the occasional single intruder at this point as opposed to a stampede like Microsoft has to deal with - or not deal with.
I love that story. There's a process to busting people for any perceived violation and it doesn't involve showing up to perform your own law enforcement functions with lawyers.
When I worked radio, we regularly got sheets from ASCAP and BMI to fill out with exactly which songs we played and when. No guess work about it. All the radio stations do this. Based on the responses, ASCAP and BMI (supposedly) split their license collections with the artists using the performance ratios they get from the sheets (after expenses which I'm sure are very very high).
The thing that REALLY pissed me off is many of the artists playing in my coffee shop, doing their own material, signed up for either ASCAP or BMI. I asked them about it and not one of them had ever seen a fucking dime out of ASCAP or BMI, even though their tear jerking sob story was "think of the artists" when it came time to buy a sticker for the front door. This is just flat out extorsion and a cartel of leeching middlemen that desperately needs to be broken.
I owned a coffee shop about 5 years ago and BMI showed up demanding a music license. We had DirecTV music channels playing in the shop and had a commercial license. Didn't matter, BMI wanted their cut on top of our existing permit. We told them to buzz off since we already paid whatever we needed to DirecTV. Two weeks later, they were back. We had live music where the artists were playing all original stuff and BMI literally told us "nobody can write that much music, they must be doing covers". HUH? Where do you think all this music comes from? Sit in and see for yourself. They didn't do that. We finally got rid of them by buying a junior license of some sort for $50 (they wanted $850 originally). Assholes.
So, how long until the glass touchscreen stops responding to input? Won't the atom thin coating get nicked and break the circuits? Or is it better than that?
My first cell phones (1989) cost $15.00 a month through C&P Telephone (pronounced Verizon now). It worked great because I only used them on nights and weekends. Otherwise, it was $0.68 a minute. Verizon fixed all that for me by jacking up everything they possibly could so those dreaded high phone bills of the past are automatic now.
iWork isn't a replacement for Office unless you do page layout and Power Point. Keynote (part of iWork) blows Power Point out of the water, not just for effects but also how good it looks on screen. Keynote is of the best kept secrets of the Mac. When I do a Keynote presentation, people run up to me afterward and want to know how I did it instead of asking about the topic. They're universally amazed at how great it looks and runs, the way media is mixed in and the gorgeous transitions. Keynote will also import and export Power Point projects. Importing makes the same Power Point look way better but exporting unfortunately strips away whatever Power Point isn't capable of displaying - which is quite a bit.
The Pages part of iWork isn't a word processor as much as a layout system. I've converted several people who confuse Word with a layout program to start using Pages on a Mac instead. They're much happier there.
Office for Mac is pretty good these days except for the way Microsoft is crippling it for power users. Otherwise, it works fine but costs too much. However, NewEgg sells a full OEM version of Office Mac for $185. If you're in education, you can get the slightly sawed off student version of Office Mac for $130 (3 installs). It's my first choice.
A close second choice is the newer version of NeoOffice for Mac which works pretty well. It can read that zipped up proprietary digital glop that Microsoft calls OOXML. Don't know about OpenOffice for Mac... yet.
Running Windows in Parallels is really nice and fast but the most expensive way to do things. A lot of people don't necessarily want to buy and run Windows, they just want to run Windows Apps which brings me to the Wine implementations. Office for PC ran OK in CodeWeavers' Crossover Mac except for Outlook at the time (who cares when you can run 100 other email programs). Crossover doesn't require a Windows license. Installing software is also a little goofy and I abandoned that fairly quick. Check back in a year.
No... no link... it's trapped on a computer in a museum somewhere playing from a local hard drive. Since it doesn't belong to us, I can't just post a link here. Still, after we compressed it we all looked at each other with a "damn that looks nice" expression. I just double checked the parameters today to make sure. Near HD at 2.2 Mbits/sec without a clue of compression artifacts. Nothing. I got a whole new respect for the On2 codec - looks at least as good as VC-1 at twice the data rate. Maybe it was the material (talking head on static background) but knowing what to look for, there was nothing to apologize for on that picture.
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You do realize that putting (!) in something means you're mooning them, yes?
Don't cross a mac fanboy....
This is just a new vector on securing an operating system... and it probably works really well.
**yawn**
I personally thank my maker that the US uses this before their enemies do.
The enemies already did, except the remote pilot part was on backorder.
No, but they sure could discourage looting.
<humor>
You've completely sensationalized this issue by waaaayyy overstating the time to having an XP machine pwned. Unbelieveable how some people pop out with crap like this which isn't even remotely true. It's 23 minutes before the average XP machine is pwned *, not seconds, so get your story straight, pal!
(* - providing it hasn't crashed yet)
</humor>The Windows camp has nothing to gloat about as long as I'm getting a hundred spam messages a day from compromised Windows machines.
A feature! Of course! This could be a piece of freeware for a company to deploy the daily operation notes to everyone's desktop every morning using Multicast DNS. Brilliant! I could use that now. Would it still be called a vulnerability? I guess it depends on whether your goal is to harm the public or help the public.
This should be patched quickly and bears watching but I'm a considerable distance from panic at this point. Apple only needs to deal with the occasional single intruder at this point as opposed to a stampede like Microsoft has to deal with - or not deal with.
One down, 140,000 to go until he catches up. Good thing mDNS doesn't work on the open Internet, though.
Wow. It took this long for someone to care.
Microsoft's Mouse and Keyboard division are the only high quality products I can think of from them.
Ballmer? Is that you?
I love that story. There's a process to busting people for any perceived violation and it doesn't involve showing up to perform your own law enforcement functions with lawyers.
When I worked radio, we regularly got sheets from ASCAP and BMI to fill out with exactly which songs we played and when. No guess work about it. All the radio stations do this. Based on the responses, ASCAP and BMI (supposedly) split their license collections with the artists using the performance ratios they get from the sheets (after expenses which I'm sure are very very high).
The thing that REALLY pissed me off is many of the artists playing in my coffee shop, doing their own material, signed up for either ASCAP or BMI. I asked them about it and not one of them had ever seen a fucking dime out of ASCAP or BMI, even though their tear jerking sob story was "think of the artists" when it came time to buy a sticker for the front door. This is just flat out extorsion and a cartel of leeching middlemen that desperately needs to be broken.
I owned a coffee shop about 5 years ago and BMI showed up demanding a music license. We had DirecTV music channels playing in the shop and had a commercial license. Didn't matter, BMI wanted their cut on top of our existing permit. We told them to buzz off since we already paid whatever we needed to DirecTV. Two weeks later, they were back. We had live music where the artists were playing all original stuff and BMI literally told us "nobody can write that much music, they must be doing covers". HUH? Where do you think all this music comes from? Sit in and see for yourself. They didn't do that. We finally got rid of them by buying a junior license of some sort for $50 (they wanted $850 originally). Assholes.
If I see the cross platform vulnerability I just bought again, I'm suing!
1. Login to your computer
2. Stand up
3. Put your foot through your monitor
4. PROFIT!
"That's because safety information has more punch when you're able to show what happens when you"
The saftey briefing is done by Gary Überbanger, who walks out with no arms and half his face missing. People write down whatever he says.Ahh... don't feed the troll. He copies and pastes the same crap every other month and I've seen this one multiple times.
Put immobilizers on the kids. It's called "jail".
So, how long until the glass touchscreen stops responding to input? Won't the atom thin coating get nicked and break the circuits? Or is it better than that?
My first cell phones (1989) cost $15.00 a month through C&P Telephone (pronounced Verizon now). It worked great because I only used them on nights and weekends. Otherwise, it was $0.68 a minute. Verizon fixed all that for me by jacking up everything they possibly could so those dreaded high phone bills of the past are automatic now.
iWork isn't a replacement for Office unless you do page layout and Power Point. Keynote (part of iWork) blows Power Point out of the water, not just for effects but also how good it looks on screen. Keynote is of the best kept secrets of the Mac. When I do a Keynote presentation, people run up to me afterward and want to know how I did it instead of asking about the topic. They're universally amazed at how great it looks and runs, the way media is mixed in and the gorgeous transitions. Keynote will also import and export Power Point projects. Importing makes the same Power Point look way better but exporting unfortunately strips away whatever Power Point isn't capable of displaying - which is quite a bit.
The Pages part of iWork isn't a word processor as much as a layout system. I've converted several people who confuse Word with a layout program to start using Pages on a Mac instead. They're much happier there.
Office for Mac is pretty good these days except for the way Microsoft is crippling it for power users. Otherwise, it works fine but costs too much. However, NewEgg sells a full OEM version of Office Mac for $185. If you're in education, you can get the slightly sawed off student version of Office Mac for $130 (3 installs). It's my first choice.
A close second choice is the newer version of NeoOffice for Mac which works pretty well. It can read that zipped up proprietary digital glop that Microsoft calls OOXML. Don't know about OpenOffice for Mac... yet.
Running Windows in Parallels is really nice and fast but the most expensive way to do things. A lot of people don't necessarily want to buy and run Windows, they just want to run Windows Apps which brings me to the Wine implementations. Office for PC ran OK in CodeWeavers' Crossover Mac except for Outlook at the time (who cares when you can run 100 other email programs). Crossover doesn't require a Windows license. Installing software is also a little goofy and I abandoned that fairly quick. Check back in a year.
No... no link... it's trapped on a computer in a museum somewhere playing from a local hard drive. Since it doesn't belong to us, I can't just post a link here. Still, after we compressed it we all looked at each other with a "damn that looks nice" expression. I just double checked the parameters today to make sure. Near HD at 2.2 Mbits/sec without a clue of compression artifacts. Nothing. I got a whole new respect for the On2 codec - looks at least as good as VC-1 at twice the data rate. Maybe it was the material (talking head on static background) but knowing what to look for, there was nothing to apologize for on that picture.